A California city is scrapping a contract it had with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security to house federal immigration detainees amid clashes between law enforcement and protesters in Los Angeles.
The City of Glendale announced Sunday it is terminating the deal it has maintained since 2007, which allowed federal detainees to be held at the Glendale Police Department facility, after acknowledging that public perception of the arrangement has “become divisive.”
The move to cancel the ICE contract arrives amid a weekend of protests and rioting in Los Angeles against a series of Trump-backed immigration crackdowns across the city. California Governor Gavin Newsom accused the president of escalating the unrest by deploying hundreds of National Guard troops to L.A. and posting inflammatory social media comments.
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